PARIS — Every judoka deals with injury — it’s part of the grappling game — but Canada’s Shady Elnahas nevertheless stuck out like a sore thumb on Thursday.

Ranked third in the world in the under-100kg weight class, the 26-year-old from Toronto was one-and-done in the Olympic tournament at Champ-de-Mars Arena, upset by 14th-ranked Daniel Eich of Switzerland in the round of 16.

Elnahas broke his left thumb in two places in pre-Games training and had surgery to repair the digit just four days before leaving Montreal for Paris on July 23. The stitches came out Wednesday night and his hand was heavily bandaged for the match.

Even so, Elnahas said he never considered withdrawing from the tournament at any point, and he wasn’t about to use the injury as an excuse on Thursday. But it appears to

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